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The avocado bathroom suite appreciation society
ProgRocker
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Just seen a post about avocado bathroom suites on the 'acceptable in the '70's thread' and thought that it deserved a thread of it's own! 
I still like them, and other coloured bathroom suites. If I bought an old house with one in it, I would try to retain it if it still in good nick.
My parents had installed some avocado porcelain into the separate WC and bathroom of their house. However, iirc it was the early 1980s by then and somehow a little behind the fashion curve as they considered a 1970s thing. They had just bought their council house and so had the freedom to make some improvements (for want of a better word).
Does anyone have a fondness, or any memories of, coloured/avocado bathrooms?
I still like them, and other coloured bathroom suites. If I bought an old house with one in it, I would try to retain it if it still in good nick.
My parents had installed some avocado porcelain into the separate WC and bathroom of their house. However, iirc it was the early 1980s by then and somehow a little behind the fashion curve as they considered a 1970s thing.
They had just bought their council house and so had the freedom to make some improvements (for want of a better word).Does anyone have a fondness, or any memories of, coloured/avocado bathrooms?
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ProgRocker will correct me if I'm wrong, but sadly I don't think that qualifies you to join our society.
It's nothing personal ... just rules are rules.
Then a few weeks ago I was asking someone at work how much did they reckon it would cost to redo the bathroom - including removing the bath and installing just a big shower. They said "oh you dont want to do that",i asked why,he said "Because it will be difficult to sell in the future".
Again, we were looking for advice on home improvements for us to live with,not to sell and we intend on staying here for a long,long time. Unless we won the lottery - in which case removing an avocado bathroom / putting back in the bath wouldn't be a problem!
Never been a fan of avocado or brown though.
Maybe one day colours will make a comeback.:(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWoWHzq21tA
Getting a new white suite delivered tomorrow, so its bye bye Avocado!
LOL. Very good
White was not an option!
In the end we went for pale blue.
I'm pretty sure coloured bathroom suites WILL make a comeback in time, after all it's fashion and in the fashion world, what goes around comes around - I well remember flared trousers and platform soles first time around and they (of all things) made a comeback.
A few years ago I had a thing for the colour magenta/fuchsia/shocking pink. A friend of mine had a bath in that colour and I really wanted it. She hated it. She wasn't upgrading and we were renting otherwise we could have done a deal.
One house we rented had an aqua/turquoise bathroom and it felt like I was in a swimming pool when I was in the bath:)
Why don't you clean it then?
My uncle still has a chocolate coloured bathroom suite which just looks hideous. It's more black than brown though so just makes the room appear smaller than it actually is.
Nothing looks nicer that a sparkling clean white bathroom suite.